Arch. Myriam B. Mahiques Curriculum Vitae

Monday, October 17, 2011

Villa Diodati

My version of Villa Diodati environment, in the night when Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and other writers were gathered listening to a German horror story read by Lord Byron.

¨The Villa Diodati is a manor in Cologny close to Lake Geneva. It is most famous for having been the summer residence of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, John Polidori and others in 1816, where the basis for the classical horror stories Frankenstein and The Vampyre was laid.

Originally called the Villa Belle Rive, Byron named it the Villa Diodati after the family that owned it. The family was distantly related to Italian translator Giovanni Diodati, uncle of Charles Diodati, the close friend of poet John Milton. Despite the presence of a plaque at the Villa heralding a supposed visit of Milton in 1638, in fact the villa was not built until 1710, long after Milton's death.¨

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A Woman Architect's Sensibility

After many years of profession, an architect feels the emotion for even small every-day things that contain Art, it's like "watching beyond" them. I'm not a professional photographer, not a renown artist, but a woman architect who loves her career and produces images that move her sensibility, and maybe others' as well. In the label ¨Exercises with form and color¨ you will find some explanations of processes and perception of the images.

About Me

Myriam B. Mahiques is an architect, graduated from Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (FADU) in 1986. She has collaborated in many Studios and Construction firms, developed projects and constructions as independent professional, also competitions and exhibitions in the area of Architecture and painting. In the Academy she has been chief of practical exercises at the chairs of architectural design Goldemberg and since 2002 to 2004 in Grinberg chair. She has been a researcher for the Institute EFUR (Function of Urban Evolution); researcher for FOINDI (FADU), unit “Technology for the Megalopolis” and “Technology in primitive man”. In 2001 she was assigned the fellowship NuevaTec, from the Ministry of Education and Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, to investigate the subject “ Urban Morphology and Fractal Design”. Currently she is a senior researcher in the same field and is Ad honorem researcher at the Laboratory of mathematics and design, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of Buenos Aires. She is Associated Editor of World Architecture.org and has many publications and presentations in national and international symposiums.